The longlist for the 2017 RBC Taylor Prize is as follows:
1) Waiting for First Light: My Ongoing Battle with PTSD by ROMEO DALLAIRE (Ottawa, ON), published by Random House Canada
2) By Chance Alone: A Remarkable True Story of Courage and Survival at Auschwitz by MAX EISEN (Toronto, ON), published by HarperCollins Canada
3) Pumpkinflowers: An Israeli Soldier’s Story by MATTI FRIEDMAN (Jerusalem), published by Signal / McClelland & Stewart
4) An Intimate Wilderness: Arctic Voices in a Land of Vast Horizons by NORMAN HALLENDY (Carp, ON), published by Greystone Books
5) Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of Water Lilies by ROSS KING (Oxford, England), published by Bond Street Books
6) The Killer Whale Who Changed the World by MARK LEIREN-YOUNG (Vancouver, BC), published by Greystone Books
7) Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World by MARC RABOY (Montreal, QC), published by Oxford University Press
8) Quinn: The Life of a Hockey Legend, by DAN ROBSON (Toronto, ON), published by Penguin Random House Canada
9) Wait Time: A Memoir of Cancer by KENNETH SHERMAN (Toronto, ON), published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press
10) This Is Not My Life: A Memoir of Love, Prison, and Other Complications by DIANE SCHOEMPERLEN (Kingston, ON), published by HarperCollins Canada
11) Invisible North: The Search for Answers on a Troubled Reserve by ALEXANDRA SHIMO (Toronto, ON), published by Dundurn Press
12) A World We Have Lost: Saskatchewan Before 1905 by BILL WAISER (Saskatoon, SK), published by Fifth House Books

The 2017 RBC Taylor Prize shortlist will be announced at a news conference on January 11 and the 2017 Prize winner will be announced at a gala luncheon and awards ceremony on March 6, 2017. Both events will take place in downtown Toronto.